Sentences with phrase «pawns of»

Dhuran then reveals that all the enemies the party has faced were just pawns of Mortamor, the Demon Emperor.

The Women's March, Everytown for Gun Safety and the gun violence prevention group founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords provided heavy support for the march, opening the youths up to criticism that they are just pawns of left - wing organizations that have been fighting guns for years.

In many communities, conflicts between customary and elected councils have endured for decades; in others such disputes are proliferating as traditional elements seek to assert their ancestral authority or elected councils come to be seen as pawns of the federal government.

Such are the remarks in Reuters by the head of the Indonesia Palm Oil Growers Association that environmental NGOs pointing out the unmitigated climate change and biodiversity nightmare of plantation palm oil production might be pawns of Western business interests wanting to gain an advantage in the international biofuels market: Joefly Bahroeny said,

Likewise, since before I ever became a skeptic, the establishment climate scientists and their supporters have been characterizing, ad infinitum, the skeptical community as shills of the oil industry and other large industrial concerns, and especially as paid - off pawns of right - wing think tanks and right - wing concerns.

While there are random pawns generated within the game, folk playing online will be able to borrow the Pawns of other players, and can even rate them.

Of course not all humans have become the mindless pawns of the demons; an organization by the name of «The Oder» has been formed trying to break their control over people.

Republicans also repeatedly dismissed their Democratic critics as pawns of teachers unions, casting them as implicit supporters of allowing failing schools to remain that way.

Many policymakers and pundits view the opt - out phenomenon as a fringe movement and have characterized test - refusing parents as uninformed middle - class suburbanites who are pawns of the teachers union and who are undermining accountability and the measurement of the achievement gap.

New thinking in Russian education is turningstudents from pawns of propaganda into something downright revolutionary.

Eastwood and screenwriter Paul Haggis are more interested in following these characters than to simply let them become pawns of the situations surrounding them, and each new development simultaneously defines and is defined by them.

The other actors are great and perfectly cast too: Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, and RJ Mitte all succeed at making their parts feel like flesh and blood, not mere pawns of writers» whims.

Unknowingly, he and his wife are also pawns of a deadly plan for revenge on the part of Belgian Captain Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz).

In a column in The New York Times last October science writer George Johnson likened Hawaiian's opposition to the telescope to the Catholic Church's oppression of Galileo, and suggested that the indigenous protesters were pawns of environmentalists who «have learned that a few traditionally dressed natives calling for the return of sacred lands can draw more attention than arguments over endangered species and fragile ecosystems.»

While not entirely incorrect, most of this tends to be an over generalization of the cynical belief that they're all pawns of their donors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a sustained attack on a half dozen Republicans members of the House of Representatives in New York, decrying them as pawns of far - right «puppet masters» who he wants to unseat.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, says the two largest producers of cocoa in the world, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, have now decided to co-operate in ensuring that they do not continue to be victims or pawns of a global cocoa industry that is dependent on the work of their farmers.

Wow, these sanctimommies (all just pawns of Big Garlic, Big Kale and Big Organic Wrap!!!)

They must fight their way up through a foot and a half of sand and gravel after emerging from the egg, and, once free in the water, they become the pawns of fatalistic instinct.

They are gentle, self - sacrificing, obedient souls, pawns of the Goddess.

I can create a corporation that will not hire christians because I believe all christians are pawns of Satan, since they follow the words of Satan that is the bible, that is OK to you?

Face it, you T - baggers are all pawns of the Republicans who have been bought and paid for by the health insurance companies.

But church people need no longer be help-less pawns of television.

The problem, they said, resulted from deceitful policies that made Jews the tragic pawns of empire (May 31, 1939).

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

Actually they are simply pawns of «supermen» who create their own morality.

Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»

I'd feel sorry for you if you weren't a blight upon society and a pawn of those who would enslave me.

Many are unwittingly the pawn of atheists, agnostics, evolutionists, astronomers, or accept whatever is spoken or written down in a book or online article, considering it authentic without seriously considering if it is true or has merit because it is popularly accepted.

He has to be a pawn of the Devil himself rather than inspired by God.

How's it feel to know your just a pawn of the prince of this world?

When we present him as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives and reactions, as a mere product of heredity and environment.

If Iran doesn't want to go down in history as the weakest political and spiritual PAWN of EVIL, it will get itself in order.

How do you know you aren't just a pawn of satan, that satan didn't actually inspire your book and gave god the credit, and that you actually walk with satan?

You are a pawn of the anti-gun movement that has convinced ignorant people everywhere that «assault weapons» are for sale in the U.S..

Now, rather than being an instrument of information, I've become a pawn of propaganda.

Two years later, he depicted Mr. Recchia as a pawn of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's stunning attack on Mayor de Blasio «laid out a very important marker» that the City Council is not a pawn of the administration, fellow legislators...

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's stunning attack on Mayor de Blasio «laid out a very important marker» that the City Council is not a pawn of the administration, fellow legislators said Friday.

The mayor on Friday — for the third time in recent weeks and second time in two days — singled me out, implying that somehow I'm a pawn of the governor in his battle with his old buddy de Blasio.

A Basic Bitch is a manipulated pawn of media and everything advertisers want you to be.

And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully, by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (white) editor of the student newspaper, the (white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with, and the (black) students who don't know what to make of him.

An intricate, intense thriller about a young bride (Paltrow) who becomes the emotional pawn of her controlling mother - in - law (Lange).

Seemingly a pawn of her mothers, Hecate has an evil agenda all her own.

His replacement, Pius Thicknesse (Guy Henry), a pawn of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), is a destructive wizard — requiring all citizens to be tested for human blood, and whose personal troopers are strikingly similar to S.S. soldiers.

Election is Alexander Payne's follow - up to his startlingly mature 1996 feature debut, Citizen Ruth, an equal - opportunity abortion satire that starred Laura Dern as an unhappily pregnant, paint - huffing loser who becomes a pawn of both the pro-choice and pro-life movements.

Other returning characters include Ezra Miller as Credence, a pawn of Grindelwald who appeared to meet his demise at the end of the first film, MACUSA President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo) and Scamander's fiance Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz), whose photo was seen in the first film.

Everyone in Sicario is a pawn of someone or something else.

The brilliant Xavier Samuel is also an incredibly watchable actor as Riley Pierce, the unknowing and naive pawn of Victoria who provides some devilishly menacing scenes of villainy.

Renner, who spends the first half of the movie as a pawn of the character's search, does serviceable work in this section, but the screenplay still maintains its investigative mindset, meaning that character is still a pawn but one of forces seeking or aiding his destruction.